Tim Lane

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‘It’s All Cronyism Going Forward’ A flu researcher the Trump administration elevated to power will now benefit from a massive funding award.

Matthew Memoli, a middling researcher at NIH, criticized COVID vaccine mandates and DEI, and was chosen by Trump to dismantle NIH. Memoli becomes NIH’s principal deputy director and awards himself and close collaborator Jeffery Taubenberger up to $500 million for in-house vaccine research. Cool.

Effective May 5, 2025, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) will decommission its snow and ice data products from the Coasts, Oceans, and Geophysics Science Division (COGS). As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported. This includes Sea Ice Index, Snow Data Assimilation System (SNODAS) Data Products, Glacier Photograph Collection, U.S. National Ice Center Arctic Sea Ice Charts and Climatologies in Gridded Format Gridded Monthly Sea Ice Extent and Concentration, 1850 Onward World Glacier Inventory. If you rely on these products in your work, research, education, or planning, we invite you to share your story at nsidc@nsidc.org. Your input can help us demonstrate the importance of these data sets and advocate for future support.

This is horrible. I don't even know what to say. Some of our most key polar data.

"As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported."

nsidc.org/data/user-re...

PGC have been vital in processing and providing satellite imagery, digital elevation models, maps and other geospatial data to scientists for decades. Polar science needs this work to continue.

#saveNSF #withoutNSF 🧪

A study, using our climate model MAR, lead by my colleague Brice Noel (FNRS) and published in Nature Communications, links the rapid mass loss of Patagonian glaciers to a poleward shift of subtropical high-pressure systems.

www.sciences.uliege.be/cms/c_134669...

🎉 Latest paper from the NERC-funded Northeast Greenland Ice Stream project. Offshore geophysical and sedimentological evidence shows the ice stream extended to the shelf edge at the Last Glacial Maximum.

@shelfyice.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New research field to explore? @loopdlupien.bsky.social

Postdoc in Climate Modelling and Arctic-Midlatitude Connections - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Department of Environmental Science - Atmospheric Emissions & Modelling, Aarhus University

Who wants to work on the Arctic in Copenhagen? Super postdoc job going with our friends at Aarhus University* together with DMI on climate modelling and Arctic influences on the mid-latitudes:

*at a campus not actually in Aarhus but just outside Copenhagen

international.au.dk/about/profil...

Non-destructive radiocarbon dating of bone Since the 1950s, radiocarbon measurements have anchored archaeological chronologies dating back to 50,000 years, with bone collagen being a commonly dated material. Despite advances in collagen extrac...

We are happy to share our pre-print on dating bone using a novel non-destructive protocol we developed. The paper is on the Biorxiv here (Luftensteiner et al. 2025):
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Anson wearing a fitted mask and lying on a table in a hospital about to be treated with radiation therapy for head and neck cancer

Photo of Anson’s face showing the imprint of the mask on his face that they had to wear every day to receive radiation therapy for head and neck cancer. The mask was tight!!

As the UK went into lockdown 5 years ago today, I went into a deserted London to start radiation ☢️ therapy for HPV related head & neck cancer. I had to wear this extremely tight fitting mask for 15 mins every day for 7 weeks. The saga still goes on… #cancersky #hpvcancer #fuckcancer

Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC) Competition 2026

Academic interested in moving to Canada? 🇨🇦 Canada Excellence Research Chairs program is now live. @ucalgary.bsky.social is looking for (amongst others) senior research chair in Mountain Water Security. 🧪⚒️❄️ #academicsky Please repost far and wide! research.ucalgary.ca/research/our...

EGU celebrates the diversity of people needed to create truly outstanding science The Union restates our support for a geoscience community that is diverse as an essential feature of conducting cutting edge, innovative science research. In order to support this, we share a list of ...

A very nice statement from EGU outlining the union's commitment to diversity and the actions and initiatives they've taken in support of equality, diversity and inclusion. It's a nice long list when you write it all out!
www.egu.eu/news/1259/eg...

Winter subglacial meltwater detected in a Greenland fjord - Nature Geoscience Temperature and salinity observations from a Greenland fjord suggest that subglacial meltwater is discharged during winter, impacting the fjord heat budget and biological productivity.

Winter subglacial meltwater detected in a Greenland fjord

The results suggest that warm Atlantic water and nutrients are entrained at the glacier front, leading to enhanced frontal melt and increased nutrient levels.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

PhD position in Geography The University of Iceland invites applications for a PhD position in Geography at the Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences School of Engineering and Natural Sciences.

🤩 Exciting PhD vacancy at University of Iceland - "Birch Forests of Iceland: Past and Future"

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/320534

My colleague Vivi Pedersen and I are teaching our summer course again!

Climate Change: Cross-disciplinary Challenges and Solutions

This Masters level course is 5 ECTS and the deadline for application to soak up the summer sun at @au.dk is on March 18th. ☀️

international.au.dk/education/ad...

Last Tuesday, I was set to give a talk on 'climate change in the Northeast' at a retirement home but had to cancel due to hourly job threats.

After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected.

Young Anson, 20 years old, Caucasian, dark hair! Wearing a black knitted jumper with pink triangle

Last day of #lgbtqhistorymonth, yet at home & abroad we’re still fighting for our rights, rights that are being rolled back at terrifying speed. I’m wearing a pink triangle even when I was 20, fighting for lgbtq rights 40 years ago. The fight is all of ours 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #lgbtq

Interested in submitting a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship with me at Aarhus University? Send me a message or email!

The university offers an excellent Masterclass to support your application!

medarbejdere.au.dk/administrati...

@au.dk

What Cuban scientists taught me about the power of real teamwork The best teams value the voices of every member, this professor argues

Teamwork, equality, and respect sorely missing today. Saddened by all the division. Remembering fondly our science colleagues in Cuba and what they taught me about working together as a team no matter our differences. Here's a short reflection from 2020.🧪💙📚

www.science.org/content/arti...

Women are credited less in science than men - Nature The difference between the number of men and women listed as authors on scientific papers and inventors on patents is at least partly attributable to unacknowledged contributions by women scientists.

On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience let me remind you that we are NOWHERE NEAR parity. A few examples.

1. Women are credited less in science than men.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I’ve been adding slowly to my #Quaternary science starter pack but aware lots have joined since I made it. It is (not accidentally) biased toward female scientists, so in case you need to diversify your follows, take a look!
Keep sending suggestions - I’m happy to add you/them.
go.bsky.app/71XJ4jH

28 people have added their names already. If you'd like to join us in solidarity and to emphasise the importance of EDI in polar science, then let me know.
www.antarcticglaciers.org/2025/02/pola...

1. Accelerate emissions reductions 2. enhance monitoring of glaciers and ice sheet 3. Support the long-term deveopment of ice sheet models 4. Imvest in flexible and localised coastal management 5. Foster international collaboration

The @h2020protect.bsky.social now has it's final annual meeting. We have been working on this #Horizon 2020 project for 4.5 years, and there are some key recommendations in this policy briefing. It's worth reading the whole thing. #Cryosphere #IceSheets #SeaLevelRise
protect-slr.eu/policy-briefs/

Hey All! 👋 Our project “Crevasses as indicators of ice-sheet stability” is looking for a post-doctoral fellow.

We’re looking for someone with experience observing and/or modelling crevasse fracture.

Advert: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

(closes 16 March 2025)

A data-consistent model of the last glaciation in the Alps achieved with physics-driven AI - Nature Communications This study employs a physics-informed AI model to reconstruct the last glaciation of the European Alps with high accuracy. The approach reduces ice thickness errors by 200–450%, yielding insights into...

We have a paper out today in @naturecomms.bsky.social on modelling the last glaciation of the European Alps, resulting in a substantial decrease in long-standing model-data misfits ! doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Two weeks left to apply to this very exciting (if I do so say myself) PhD position with Professor Mads Knudsen and me at @aarhusuni.bsky.social!

Linear-viscous flow of temperate ice Accurately modeling the deformation of temperate glacier ice, which is at its pressure-melting temperature and contains liquid water at grain boundaries, is essential for predicting ice sheet discharg...

Not seeing a lot of discussion about this. Some researchers have estimated the Glen's flow law exponent n as ~ 1 rather than 3-4 for temperate ice. This could mean that the world's most critical glaciers are linear-viscous are their base.
🥼❄️ ⚒️

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Divided by a common language? The impact of a joint international field trip on student skills Fieldwork is often cited as one of the most important and effective parts of geography education, despite increasing scrutiny over its environmental and financial cost. As a result, it is imperativ...

Nice paper out resulting from our joint @ljmuofficial.bsky.social and @scsu.bsky.social fieldtrip to Iceland. We explored the benefits of a joint fieldtrip, the issues, and advice if you want to make one happen!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In case all the interest in #Greenland has raised your interest, our ace collaborators in #Asiaq, the logistics and survey organisation are currently recruiting a #climate + cryosphere position.
This is a *permanent* position and a super opportunity

asiaq.career.emply.com/en/ad/climat...